I personally love Knoppix, and master admins always have their own remastered STD with all the tools in their kits to allow not only all the great Knoppix Swiss Army type (forgive me O'Reilly) hacks, but also allow a nice autopsy forensics, or a nice honeypot, snort on a network, real quickly. Mine runs from my 8GB USB key (but then I work on Dell, HP, or more recent bios boxen that allow such a boot).... Obnosis | (503)754-4452 PLUG Linux Security Labs 2nd Saturday Each Month@Noon - 3PM > Subject: Re: backtrack 3 > From: drpppr242@gmail.com > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:41:04 +0000 > > Maybe I'm wrong but for "fix-it" usage I'd use knoppix or finnix rather > than backtrack. backtrack has alot of pen-testing tools, fuzzers, > aircrack-suite, port scanners ect. it's fun to play w/ but for general > admin/support work I think 95% I find finnix way more useful. > > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 17:00 -0400, mike havens wrote: > > I want to become a computer fix-it guy. and was thinking backtrack 3 > > would be a good tool for that. because windows machines would be what > > mainly needs to be repaired I think I am downloading the wrong > > thing,,,, I need the vmware version. Is this correct? > > > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:54 AM, mike havens > > wrote: > > is it a security distribution? let's talk about it. (this is > > very topical as it is a slax live cd) i'm downloading it now. > > > > Has anyone had any experiences with it? what is positve about > > it? what is negative? questions, questions, I am always > > questioning. > > -- > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > > > > > > -- > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Contacts: Organize your contact list. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/marcusatmicrosoft.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!503D1D86EBB2B53C!2285.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_UGC_Contacts_032009